At a Seattle fundraiser on Saturday, Joe Biden said that “if someone at a business meeting in Seattle ‘made fun of a gay waiter’ people would just let it go,” according to CNN. But the audience reportedly didn’t respond well to his comment.
Biden’s comments at the event, which was was hosted by Roger Nyhus, a public relations executive known as a local leader in gay rights, were meant to highlight changing social attitudes towards LGBTQ people and his open support of same-sex marriage before his boss, former President Barack Obama, evolved to a similar outlook.
Biden said that if someone made fun of a gay waiter these days that they would not be invited back to such a meeting.
According to CNN, after Biden made his remark “the audience vocally responded to the remark and some in the crowd said homophobic comments would not have gone unchallenged even before five years ago.”
